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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

It was a strategic/tactical analysis, disconnected from day-to-day operations, and the software tools were difficult to learn and use. Did LLamasoft (a Talking Logistics sponsor) help to create these inflection points or did it simply see these trends coming before others and caught the wave early?

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Sustainability and due diligence laws force action

Logistics Business Magazine

Ralf Duester, board member of the SCM software specialist Setlog , summarises which trends will shape the year 2022. His analysis is based on conversations and data from Setlog customers who use the SCM tool OSCA, e.g. more than 100 brands in the fashion industry alone. Sustainability and due diligence laws force us to act.

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The Data Needed to Transform Supply Chains

Talking Logistics

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. A Deloitte study in 2017 found 49% of procurement officers believe the quality of data is a major barrier, and the lack of data integration was the number two barrier (42%).

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Q: What are the latest trends in logistics education, and how does your program address them? Gerard Burke, Georgia Southern University: A continuing trend is the challenge to attract students to pursue a career often perceived as humdrum. Experiential learning is another trend seen as valuable to both hiring companies and students.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

The 1997 Defence Efficiency Review (DER) , a review now commonly associated with an over-ambitious efficiency agenda which led to near disastrous levels of logistics hollowness in an ADF on the cusp of twenty years of continuous operations, was a catalyst which brought a conceptual trend to reality. 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D.,

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

GlobalTranz

To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important topic for us to consider the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study found that 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. Successfully reshoring a manufacturing facility demands extensive analysis, and expert planning and execution.

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55 Supply Chain & Logistics Experts You Should Follow on Social

The Logistics of Logistics

Keeping up with a complex, multi-layered, global industry is harder than most people think, so we decided to share a list of industry experts who share perspectives, news, trends and timely data on a regular basis on Twitter and Linkedin. Lisa Anderson. Twitter: @LisaAndersonLMA. Brian Laung Aoaeh. Twitter: @brianlaungaoaeh. Kelly Barner.